The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-25

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clipping coupons. Taken altogether,
he was a very rich man, and though
he was quiet, and despite q fine press1
ence and easy carriage notgiven much
to drawing-rooms, Miss Orrington felt
sure that were she Mrs. Braxton her
liege lord would become eminent as O
society man.
As for Margaret, she did not enter
into the calculations OF anybody.
She was considered to be little more
than schoolgirl, having been just
emancipated from the fashionable
Academy OF st. Barnabas, where be-
sides indistinct reading and illegible
writing, sho had been taught o smat.
tering OF the ologies, academical
French and schoolgirl music. This
was her first summer tour. Shelooked
up to the newcomer as a rather ma
ture gentleman, thirty seeming old to
eighteen; but as she heard him and
her brother talk, she was amazed and
rather delighted at the vast amount
OF information possessed by the big
stranger. Braxton had Travelled all
over Europe and Asia-he was in
Palestine when the news ofhis fathers
sudden death reached him-and he
had been O. keen observer. Quiet as
he generally was, and even reserved,
he was quite entertaining when drawn
out, and little Margaret listened with
| widely opened ears, remaining quietly
| in the background, with nothing to
say. Impulsive at times, she was shy
in general, and with pleasant, easy
way at home, was bashful among
strangers if they were her seniors.
She had not Marian's manner nor
Marian's beauty, though she was
neither awkward nor homely. She
| looked more like her mother, who had
been dark, while her sister and
brother were fair. She inherited one
thing from her mother--a pair OF large
dark hazel eyes that at times lit up
her whole face with strange luster.
Marian put forth her whole fascina-
ton, and Braxton seemed to succumb
| to it at once. They all walked back
to the hotel, where Orrington and
Braxton-it was "Jack, my boy"
and Gilmore old fellow" with them
recalled their old college scrapes to
quite O. late hour. When the party
separated for the night it seemed as
though Elmore Braxton had been
long as intimate with the rest OF the
family as he had been years before
with Jack.
It was soon rumored around who
| Braxton was, or rather what he was,
and he received considerable atten-
ton from far seeing fathers and match
making mothers, with modest smiles
from spinsters thrown in; but he
chung to Jack and his party, and
Marian was triumphant. She was
still more elated when he promised to
be their guest in Philadelphia so soon
as he had visited coal mine in Penn.
sylvania in which he was heavily in
terested. He was to part with them
| at Buffalo, the Others taking @ differ
emit route.
The morning OF the day he left But
falo Margaret was late at the break.
fast table where the party sat, and
John rather impatiently asked OF
Martin, "What does keep little Miss
Ugly?"
Braxton started suddenly, and re-
peated the last three words OF the
| question. ,
"Oh," cried John, suddenly, ~ had
forgotten that you didn't know our
domestic slang. The name is fastened
on Margaret, but it has no reference
to her books. When she was baby,
and was teething, she was rather fret
full, and father playfully called her
Little Miss Ugly 1t grew into pet
name with all OF us, much to mothers
disgust. 1t vexes her, though, and we
only use it inadvertently, just as it
came out now"
"Margaret is nice little girl, though
uniformed rs yet, said Marian. "She
is not as impulsive as she used to be,
though she is still little more than a
child"
"Peggy's impulses are good ones,
Marian" said John.
"Oh, OF course, or she wouldn't be
an Orrington; but they do lead to
ridiculous consequences sometimes.
Just think OF that trampl"
"Ah?" said Braxton, inquiringly.
at is commonplace enough, Ell
more" observed Jack, "but it
gave us lots OF fun at the time.
Just after we were graduated
you went of somewhere tor a
tramping tour, and came home,
and we all went up to the country
house. Margaret was q girl OF twelve
then, in short dresses, and fond .oi
climbing fences aud rambling round,
which accounts for her rather robust
health. Grandfather Sackville-that
was the year before he died-gave her
q tan.dollar gold piece for spending